You may miss out on the present if you're too focused on your future self
Wall Street on Thursday is looking forward to a farewell to a pandemic-stricken year in the last trading day in 2020.
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Union leaders formally signed on Wednesday the trade treaty they concluded last week after 10 months of tough negotiations.
After seven years of negotiations, the European Union and China agreed in principle on a landmark investment treaty that the 27-member bloc says will level the playing field for European investors in China.
Ahead of Georgia’s two Senate runoff elections on Tuesday, betting markets are signaling some confidence in the Republican Party's prospects, while polls give a slight advantage to Democrats.
U.S. stocks were little changed Thursday, with major indexes trading near records as investors ring out a tumultuous year that saw equities collapse into a bear market before rebounding to all-time highs.
"We've got enough of this vaccine on order to vaccinate the whole population — 100 million doses," said the U.K.'s health secretary, Matt Hancock, on Wednesday.
Boston University and Brown University economists who looked at what happens when people have time to mull over a financial windfall.
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